Dell PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance with CommVault with Simpana 8 software

The Dell PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance, with CommVault with Simpana 8 software, is suitable for remote offices and any business looking to deduplicate, backup, archive and recover data to and from public and private storage cloud environments. It provides up to 24 TB of internal storage capacity in a 2U form factor, with the ability to scale to over 300 TB.

The appliance delivers end-to-end, block-based deduplication and is said to achieve deduplication throughput rates up to 3 TB/h. It can facilitate faster backups and restores of both physical and virtual environments, with both VMware and Hyper-V protection options. Built-in data deduplication can reduce storage by up to a claimed 95% and the appliance can further optimise storage resources, lower risk and improve operational efficiencies with CommVault’s archiving capabilities. With Simpana software, users can retain data longer by using the DL Appliance for Microsoft Windows, Exchange, SharePoint and Linux file archiving.

CommVault’s virtual server agent integrates vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) to enable more efficient protection of VMware ESX environments including centralised, off-host, LAN-free backups of VMware vSphere virtual machines. The appliance is a suitable repository for agent-less disk backup of up to hundreds of virtual machines. Additionally, automated discovery and backup of newly created virtual machines reduces the management and risk of unprotected virtual machine data.

The appliance can be extended into public cloud storage services from Amazon, Iron Mountain, Microsoft Azur and Nirvanix for long-term, off-site retention, and Simpana SnapProtect technology schedules EqualLogic hardware snapshots for application data to merge backup and restore capabilities.

The single management console gives a consolidated view of data across all applications, platforms, devices and locations and an easy wizard-driven set-up and management utility expedites operation. It also provides integrated tape support availability with the PowerVault TL2000, TL4000 and ML6000 tape libraries.